Women's Reservations in Parliament

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bhai i think in every department their should be reservation and that also 85% :) including women SC/ ST And all posible classes be it OBC or Minorities :)
 
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rkumar said:
I fully agree with your views Priti. Reservation at party level will be much better than at constituency level. People like Mulayam Singh Yadav want reservation even among women on the basis of OBC and Muslim etc. I don't understand why they can not implement it at party level.

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I have not read the bill, but surely can make out a little bit from the discussion that is going on. I want to make my contribution without reading the bill, to keep my thoughts original.

Firstly: Why can't they implement at Party Level: The truth is that the party level ticket distribution is decided purely on the basis of community profile of the constituency. This is the biggest problem of our system as votes are often cast based on the caste and religion of the candidates (firstly) then the party he/she represents. We need to break the caste system

Secondly: Leaders like Mulayam and Laloo: They are the the people who are practicing the politics of religion while branding BJP as the one using it. We need to guard against politicians who want to divide the Indians as a community into SC/ST, Brahmin/Jats/ Rajputs and Punjabis, Gujaratis, Madrasis and so on.

Thirdly: Number of seats in Parliament. Yes we do need to increase these seasts, but making it 900 at one go may not be a good idea. When we had only 40 crore people, we also did not have the means of communictions and the technology to be with the people as a leader. Thus if the population has increased so is the means of reaching out to people. I would rather spend more money to modernize our police force to ensure better law and order rather than increase the representatives in parliament. Because not only we would need more funds but also the more manpower to provide them personal protection as it has become fashion these days.

Fourthly: Comparing Mrs. Clinton and Mrs Thether, with the normal Indian woman may not be correct. Even educated women in our country give lots of heed to their husbands tradditionally, irrespective of how indifferent he may be. But that does not mean that we don't give reservations to women. I am for it, and feel that they would do a very good job. As has been mentioned by Rajendra Ji, they do make a very good managers. May be their experties in practicing home budget helps. Traditionally Indian women neither drink nor smoke, and that saves a lot of public time while in office as aginst men who are more prone to taking up the habit of smoking and drinking.
 
On principal basis I am against any form of reservation. I beleive reservation spoon feeds and helps only creating pets. The other reason is that any type of reservation curtails the fundamental democratic rights of 'equalness' for other people - example - I cann't stand for my village panchayat elections because the seat is reserved for SCs - in a village strongly dominated by jaat? Ye kon se janam kaa badla hai?
Similar situation for female reservation issue - do people have to undergo sex-change first to fight elections in their areas? - No offense intended but I seriously think it is time to bid 'Good-Bye' to ALL forms of reservations and attack the root cause of the problems.
 
alternative thinking!

[Just as India granted voting rights to women in one stroke in 1950, we can give 100 per cent reservation to women in legislatures by having one man and one woman elected from each constituency. If this is not viable, we can have women representing every three seats from reserved constituencies. But they should be barred from contesting other seats.

R. Ganesan,
Chennai]

haha :)

this is a letter to the editor i came across in the Hindu....wonder what conflicting style of governance a constituency would have if it had two MPs from each gender each! interesting thought though...maybe a married couple should be given charge of each constituencies.... ;)
 
Let's start with puppets only, it would not take long puppet womens to realize they are puppets and that's way change happen. Indigineous governance in india started as puppet.

Also the word "puppet" would gain the status of heavy weights "secular" , "communist", "Dalit" in the poltical discussion, that would make the phenomena disappear.

Things like: congress would say BJP women's are puppet, look our super king is a women. The BJP have to architect a strong women fighure etc.

But the obvious problem is the the question when would we stop it, like the caste based reservation. It should definitely be stopped. Another things how detrimental coould it be to our family sytem which arguabily have some very fine advantages. For example, as col sir said, men indulge in some time wasting activities. You should definitely expect more and more women doing exactly that.


Also there are techncal difficulties with the party level reservations, they would start filing independents, who can right after join the party. To take care of peoblems like this would require major problematic patching.
 
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